War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. - George Orwell
Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class. - Giuseppe Prezzolini
In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus? - Akilnathan Logeswaran
the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. - Sir William Osler
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom. - Ludwig von Mises
Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode. - M.F. Moonzajer
It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up. - Abhijit Naskar
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. - Chuck Palahniuk
The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in. - Steven Magee
Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them. - W.H. Auden
The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful. - Milton Friedman
A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy. - A.E. Samaan
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. - Indira Gandhi
But the dull and stupid masses will continue in their sluggish bustle. - Jehan Sylvius
Personal Brand Focus: Immediately you try to reach the masses with your brand you dilute your brand's power and falls into the average zone. You cease to be remarkable - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to. - Arap yegon chitabkoret
In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses. - A.D. Posey
Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told. - Philip K. Dick
Don't dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses - Bernard Kelvin Clive
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. - Johannes Kepler
The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. - Plato
Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. - Dr Margaret Aranda
philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. - Hendrik Willem van Loon
to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses. - Steven Magee
Born into thisInto hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to dieInto lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guiltyInto a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closedInto a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes... - Charles Bukowski
Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. - Adolf Hitler
Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing. - Shannon L. Alder
The sooner you decide that it is alright to believe the opposite of what the masses do, and that it is alright to trust the universe, and you choose to be happy rather than be right, the sooner you will be happy. - Malti Bhojwani
The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacophony of the masses when silence is the best option and silence will speak for itself - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. - A.E. Samaan
All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests. - David Cronenberg
who gets the rare opportunity of spotting a treasure of memories lying among masses, stepping back to stroke it with a secret smile as your mind wanders back to those sleepless yet ecstatic nights you had spent together?only............a book lover. - Nadun Lokuliyanage
The answer to growing complexity in the social sphere is renewed efforts at participation by each one of us, or else a progressive decline of inert and unquestioning masses submitting to government by an elite which will have little regard for the ultimate interest of the common man. - Gordon W. Allport
News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this. - Steven Magee
I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses. - M.F. Moonzajer
I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things. - Richard Byrd
To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses. - Ben Midland
say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie. - Iwan Goll
question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have the status quo - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses.
The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs - rassool jibraeel snyman
It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again. - Christina Engela
You follow voice of masses, Possibly you suppress your inner voice. - Bikash Bhandari
The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion - Bernard Kelvin Clive
You should always be challenging yourself to see how high you can elevate yourself above the masses. - Auliq-Ice
Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses. - Amit Abraham
When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it also becomes a target to be cut down. - Sumner Davenport
Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns. - Steven Magee